Key Highlights
- “This is a big one if you’re into environment,” he told reporters on Thursday.
- “This is about as big as it gets.”The move comes as part of Trump’s bigger anti-environment push, which has seen him roll back pollution rules and boost oil and gas. On social media, Barack Obama said the repeal will leave Americans “less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change – all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money”. The former secretary of state John Kerry called the new rule “un-American”.“Repealing the Endangerment Finding takes Orwellian governance to new heights and invites enormous damage to people and property around the world,” said Kerry, who also served as Joe Biden’s climate envoy.
- “Ignoring warning signs will not stop the storm.
- It puts more Americans directly in its path.”Read the full story here:Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’Read moreIn other developments: Daniel Rosen, the Trump-appointed US attorney in Minnesota, said in a court filing that charges should be dropped against an immigrant who was shot by a federal immigration officer last month because “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the account of the incident from federal officers.
- Sensitive intelligence that a whistleblower has accused Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, of mishandling concerned a report from the National Security Agency on an intercepted phone call last year between two members of foreign intelligence who were discussing Jared Kushner and Iran, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times report.
